The mild annoyances thread!

[Baenwort]

Unless the trailer is published by the studio? I won't bother clicking. It's been fan made shit all the way down even before the advent of full blown sloppification for trailers.

Some fan trailers I liked back before AI when people would act and perform to make a trailer for a movie they wanted.

There used to be a lot of them I could link but I think they've all been claimed to death.

Only two that still around:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEvW2AUTtE8
but it is a reup

And
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t3oN3EJcfwE
is a original

Those kind of fan trailers I can (and wish I still could but AISlop) get behind.

 

[Diabolical]

Those kind of fan trailers I can (and wish I still could but AISlop) get behind.

To each their own. Unless they are clearly labelled as not-official in some way? It’s extremely irritating to have to sift through fake stuff when trying to find the real thing, if it exists.

 

[Diabolical]

Feeling compelled to fact check reporting that has been collated or presented by an LLM.
It was wrong on several accounts, and presented fringe reporting and state propaganda as fact, and collated unrelated events together into one thing.

And now I’m going to go start my workout 45 minutes late and irritated. Boo hiss.

 

[Drizzt321]

Time to burn off some of that irritation?

And yeah...unless you're careful in your prompting, definitely doesn't do a good job at that sort of thing. Even with good prompting, need to validate/fact check/sanity check always.

 

[Diabolical]

Time to burn off some of that irritation?

And yeah...unless you're careful in your prompting, definitely doesn't do a good job at that sort of thing. Even with good prompting, need to validate/fact check/sanity check always.

My irritation stems from people blindly quoting or posting from gemini, copilot, or other LLm’s. There isn’t prompting; this is direct pulls from Google and MSN “news” collations.

This is being reported as news. About conflict.
Debunking that takes time, and that is the source of irritation.

Frankly, I’m sick of having this shit pushed in broken ways into every god damn thing out there where all it has done is make things worse, and then I’m told “yes, but..” about small things that are ultimately inconsequential as if that absolves the mountain of abject shit produced in the interim.

And now I’m pissed.

 

[Drizzt321]

Ah.

Yeah, it needs to just STOP.

 

[Papageno]

A mild annoyance I was reminded of today: when people pronounce "melee" as in combat as if it were the word "mealy." I'm not expecting them to pronounce it with the stress pattern or the pure tight vowels of the French word but how hard is it to say "MAYlay"?*

*This reminds me of a previous one I posted here about a recent UK TV series run on PBS here about the fictional French detective the actors (even the one playing the title character) insisted on calling "MAYgrett".

 

[rainynight65]

A mild annoyance I was reminded of today: when people pronounce "melee" as in combat as if it were the word "mealy." I'm not expecting them to pronounce it with the stress pattern or the pure tight vowels of the French word but how hard is it to say "MAYlay"?*

*This reminds me of a previous one I posted here about a recent UK TV series run on PBS here about the fictional French detective the actors (even the one playing the title character) insisted on calling "MAYgrett".

As a non-native speaker I will say this:

English is sufficiently inconsistent that it is easy enough to make that mistake. When I was first confronted with the word 'melee' in writing - while playing The Secret Of Monkey Island, so 30 years ago - I pronounced it 'mealy' in my head. Thus far I had been taught that a double e in English is pronounced that way (see 'street'). The fact that it is a loan word doesn't change much, since English has plenty of loan words whose pronunciation is anglicised - example: rucksack, which is pronounced very differently in German than in English.

Later I learned how to properly pronounce 'melee', but still...

 

[Drizzt321]

As a non-native speaker I will say this:

English is sufficiently inconsistent that it is easy enough to make that mistake. When I was first confronted with the word 'melee' in writing - while playing The Secret Of Monkey Island, so 30 years ago - I pronounced it 'mealy' in my head. Thus far I had been taught that a double e in English is pronounced that way (see 'street'). The fact that it is a loan word doesn't change much, since English has plenty of loan words whose pronunciation is anglicised - example: rucksack, which is pronounced very differently in German than in English.

Later I learned how to properly pronounce 'melee', but still...

I think it's this Rob Words, this might help you understand the why it doesn't make a whole lot of sense and is so inconsistent.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeAx3QZ7eRs

 

[snotnose]

As a non-native speaker I will say this:

English is sufficiently inconsistent that it is easy enough to make that mistake.

Even Jeopardy will accept a completely mangled pronunciation as long as the spelling (or enunciation of such) is OK.

 

[Technarch]

I've always been partial to the interpretation that English is really four or five other languages in a trenchcoat.

 

[whoisit]

I've always been partial to the interpretation that English is really four or five other languages in a trenchcoat.

With a chainsaw, in a dark alley.

 

[Cool Modine]

You should have heard 10-year-old me running around with the Red D&D books saying chay-OT-ick.

 

[AdrianS]

There are a lot of words I only know from books, and have to work out / guess how they are pronounced.

And I'm a native speaker of the Queen's English, as interpreted down under.

 

[Papageno]

There are a lot of words I only know from books, and have to work out / guess how they are pronounced.

And I'm a native speaker of the Queen's English, as interpreted down under.

Oh sure, as a kid I thought "awry" was pronounced "AWrie." But then I grew up and opened my ears to how most people pronounced it.

 

[Cadarnfel]

There are a lot of words I only know from books, and have to work out / guess how they are pronounced.

And I'm a native speaker of the Queen's English, as interpreted down under.

Same here, and sometimes it’s really hard to let go of the way I thought they were pronounced.

 

[TheGnome]

There are a lot of words I only know from books, and have to work out / guess how they are pronounced.

I've been embarrassed on many occasions because, while I have a pretty good vocabulary, apparently most of that was learned from reading and I have no idea how to pronounce half of it. I recently learned "epitome" does not rhyme with "microtome."

 

[crombie]

My first run-in with this was at 5 years old when we were put into a mixed class with advanced reading. I was asked to read a paragraph, and to myself I was like, 'I can't read this, it's a bad word!'

The teacher pretty much demanded that I do it, and I read it, 'The dog ran ass fast ass it could.'

As an adult the only recent word that I learned was 100% different from my pronunciation was hegemony.

 

[Demento]

Same here, and sometimes it’s really hard to let go of the way I thought they were pronounced.

Even when told by multiple people that I'm wrong. TINN-i-tus just sounds awful tinn-I-tus is much better.

 

[Diabolical]

TINN-i-tus just sounds awful tinn-I-tus is much better.

Wait, it's not tinn-EYE-tus?!?

 

[crombie]

And mild annoyance. Years ago as part of a 'winter kit' I got from an old job they included a hand warmer/USB stick combo. I found it randomly the other day in a box of electronic stuff (totally not junk), and charged it up.

Today I wanted to warm my hands... and this thing barely has any heat to it! Now I just have a piece of trash to toss into electronics recycling.

 

[Drizzt321]

I wonder if letting it sit the battery degraded so much it bstely charges/discharges.Frankly its probably dangerously old and since it was so cheap, probably unstable.

 

[Scotttheking]

The wife’s parents are oh so helpful as always!
They offered to do an activity with my kids over spring break.
Except, they offered to do it on a Sunday.
Le sigh.

 

[Drizzt321]

At least they're trying...?

 

[Wheels Of Confusion]

TINN-i-tus just sounds awful

Shouldn't it?

 

[rain shadow]

And mild annoyance. Years ago as part of a 'winter kit' I got from an old job they included a hand warmer/USB stick combo. I found it randomly the other day in a box of electronic stuff (totally not junk), and charged it up.

Today I wanted to warm my hands... and this thing barely has any heat to it! Now I just have a piece of trash to toss into electronics recycling.

I think for a while, and maybe sometimes still, some of the very cheapest made-in-china products were shipped with used li-ion batteries. They would test them to make sure they took and held a charge, but it was a crapshoot as to how many cycles were on them. These same cheapo products also tended not to have any way to rebalance the cells. Older more used-up cells don't handle the heat inside of a car as well as a new battery would. They don't necessarily explode but it degrades their lifespan even more than what little they had left.

 

[Hound of Cullen]

Even when told by multiple people that I'm wrong. TINN-i-tus just sounds awful tinn-I-tus is much better.

So many other -itus/-itis words emphasize it the other way. conjunctivitis, laryngitus, appendicitis...

So, I maintain that tiinn-I-tus is correct and will shout it from the rooftops (to the annoyance of tinnitus sufferers).

 

[crombie]

I wonder if letting it sit the battery degraded so much it bstely charges/discharges.Frankly its probably dangerously old and since it was so cheap, probably unstable.

I think for a while, and maybe sometimes still, some of the very cheapest made-in-china products were shipped with used li-ion batteries. They would test them to make sure they took and held a charge, but it was a crapshoot as to how many cycles were on them. These same cheapo products also tended not to have any way to rebalance the cells. Older more used-up cells don't handle the heat inside of a car as well as a new battery would. They don't necessarily explode but it degrades their lifespan even more than what little they had left.

Yeah, this was definitely cheap swag from the lowest bidder, but it was never outside it was always just in a box of random cables and electronics. I mentioned it to my coworkers who got the same ones, and they said the heating part of it always sucked. What is fascinating is that it still 'works' as a battery backup, but whatever was on there as a flash drive is not recognized no matter what I do.

But now that I know it is technically a battery back-up I will just take it to the local depot and dispose of it there!

 

[Backstop]

My irritation stems from people blindly quoting or posting from gemini, copilot, or other LLm’s.

I have been turning over in my mind how to, gently and with respect, ask my wife to stop saying "Well this is AI but..." or "I'm not sure if this ins real, but..."

Like we'll be in the car and I ask some random question, "That building says Smurfit Facility, I wonder if that's a product or the name of the company?" And she'll pop it in her phone and "this is AI but it looks like Smurfit is a swear word from the old TV show."

We're going to be in the car for another two hours, I don't mind if you want to take ten seconds to actually look things up. Also I just saw a license plate from North Dakota, add that to the list, please.

 

[Jeff J]

Over the past thirty years, I have applied for jobs at Smurfit Container, Jefferson Smurfit, and Smurfit Stone but never heard back. (Those were names for the same paper company as it was bought and sold.) The local plant that used to be Smurfit doesn't have Smurfit in the name these days.

I like, "This is AI, but..." better than blindly repeating AI, but confirmed info is nicer still.

 

[whoisit]

Right now this is annoyance, but it could change. I have to fly next week. Thus far at the local airport, TSA has been coping with the shutdown and the lines haven't been longer than usual. Unlike, say, O'Hare, Houston, D.C., etc. I don't mind the actual flights much, but the airport is always the most stressful part of the trip. It's all the worst parts of a doctor's waiting room, minus the drugs at the end.

 

[Backstop]

Over the past thirty years, I have applied for jobs at Smurfit Container, Jefferson Smurfit, and Smurfit Stone but never heard back. (Those were names for the same paper company as it was bought and sold.) The local plant that used to be Smurfit doesn't have Smurfit in the name these days.

I like, "This is AI, but..." better than blindly repeating AI, but confirmed info is nicer still.

The place I was thinking of for this example was Smurfit Westrock, I think it makes corrugated cardboard and boxes.

 

[grommit!]

Youtube putting "most relevant" suggestions at the top of the subscriptions page.

If I wanted your algorithmic recommendations, I would use the home page muthafuckas.

 

[Revike]

Youtube putting "most relevant" suggestions at the top of the subscriptions page.

If I wanted your algorithmic recommendations, I would use the home page muthafuckas.

They keep trying to shove crap down our throats. A couple of months ago, they tried sticking promoted ad clips at the top of my history for a few weeks.

 

[Wheels Of Confusion]

They are constantly finding new ways to switch things up, every single one of them worse than what we had before.

 

[whoisit]

The algorithm requires engagement. Anger is engagement.

 

[Telwar]

Either I picked up a cold at jury duty, or the ragweed-adjacent plants have started spewing pollen like they're at an orgy, as my nose is running like a faucet.

 

[Quarthinos]

Either I picked up a cold at jury duty, or the ragweed-adjacent plants have started spewing pollen like they're at an orgy, as my nose is running like a faucet.

Considering how undecided the weather has been (at least around here), I wouldn't be surprised at the latter.

 

[Saribro]

Youtube putting "most relevant" suggestions at the top of the subscriptions page.

If I wanted your algorithmic recommendations, I would use the home page muthafuckas.

I've been offering this exact feedback every time it pops up on my page. I doubt it will help, but at least I wont have let it pass unchallenged?

 

[waubers]

Oh FFS. I just got told my 4 sentence email inviting an executive at a reseller my company works with to our tech conference, including flight and hotel, was too long. Two of the four sentences were location and logistics for the event.

Seriously? If you're so busy you can't handle reading more than 3 sentences from a company your company does tens of millions of dollars of business with, then you shouldn't have your fucking job.